Trees evergreen, to 24 m, to 34 cm d.b.h. Bark grayish brown with shallow longitudinal stripes. Branches, branchlets, petiole, rachis, and inflorescence densely appressed fulvous pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, 16-21 cm; petiole 3.5-4 cm; rachis 7.6-7.8 cm, prolonged 3-15 mm below terminal leaflet; leaflets 5-7; petiolule 8-10 mm, densely appressed pubescent; blades oblong-oblanceolate, obovate-oblong, or oblong, widest above middle, 5.5-11.6 × 2.3-4.8 cm, leathery, adnate yellow sericeous abaxially, olive-green, glossy, and glabrous adaxially, base cuneate, margin slightly revolute, apex acute or obtuse; midvein impressed adaxially, lateral veins 10-12 pairs, conspicuous and raised abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially. Panicles terminal, ca. 20 cm, much branched. Calyx ca. 1 cm, persistent; teeth unequal, densely appressed pilose. Corolla white. Legumes slightly compressed, elliptic or obovate, oblique, 3-5 × 2.2-2.6 cm, apex rounded to shortly acuminate, sometimes oblique; stipe 4-5 mm; valves leathery, ca. 1 mm thick, densely appressed fulvous pubescent, internal septum absent. Seeds 1 or 2, reddish brown, becoming chestnut-brown at maturity, oblique, subrhombic-square or obovate, compressed, 1.6-1.8 × 1.2-2 × 0.3-0.4 cm, glossy; hilum small, less than 1 mm, slightly oblique. Fl. Aug, fr. Oct.
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